Prevalence of genes for aminoglycoside-modifying enzymes in Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates from orthopedic postsurgical and implant-related infections.

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Staphylococcus epidermidis, a main etiologic agent of implant-related infections, is showing increasing resistance to several antibiotic substances, among them the aminoglycosides, a class of drugs playing a relevant role in current medical protocols to prevent and treat clinical infections. Here we investigated the prevalence of aac(6')-Ie-aph(2''), aph(3')-IIIa, and ant(4') genes, encoding for the three forms...

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